Nominations are now open for the 2024 World Monuments Fund(WMF)-Knoll Modernism Prize until September 22, 2023
WMF writes:
World Monuments Fund invites nominations for the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. The Prize will be awarded to architects or preservationists who have implemented an innovative intervention that preserved and saved a threatened modern building or complex.
Nominated projects must have been completed in the last ten years and must have faced challenges or threats that affected the site before the project implementation. Threats may include deterioration of original materials, obsolescence, abandonment, or inappropriate changes in use, ownership, economic or political conditions surrounding the site….
The call for submissions opens on July 13, 2023. The deadline for submissions is September 22, 2023 at 5.00 PM EDT and the prize will be awarded in early 2024….
The Prize will include:
- A cash honorarium of $10,000
- A Knoll Barcelona chair
- Round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations for the winner to attend the award ceremony in New York City….
An independent jury of architectural scholars, conservators, and professionals in related fields will select the prize winner. The jury is chaired by Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. The prize winner will be announced in early 2024.
If you have any questions regarding the nomination process or a site’s eligibility, please email modernism@wmf.org.
